MARCINELLE August 8, 1956
The dramatic end of the "Arms vs. Coal" agreement The pact, signed between Italy and Belgium, in 1951, called for 50 thousand miners, 2,000 per week, to be sent in exchange for 200 kg of coal per day for each Italian worker. They had to be healthy and young: less than 35 years old. The postwar misery and the strong desire to help [...]
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